General Hospital With more than 15,000 episodes and counting, "General Hospital" is the longest-running daytime drama in American TV history. Recently, the cast of the ABC soap opera came together to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary.

Production of General Hospital was suspended in March 2020, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Production resumed on July 22 of the same year; new episodes began airing on August 3, 2020.

Usually, General Hospital is available to watch daily Monday through Friday at 3 p.m. EST - assuming that the regular programming doesn't get interrupted by baseball. Thank goodness for re-runs!

1. a. : a serial drama performed originally on a daytime radio or television program and chiefly characterized by tangled interpersonal situations and melodramatic or sentimental treatment. b. : a series of real-life events resembling a soap opera.

soap opera, broadcast dramatic serial program, so called in the United States because most of its major sponsors for many years were manufacturers of soap and detergents.

A soap opera, daily soap or soap for short, is typically a long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.

1. : a hospital in which patients with many different types of ailments are given care. 2. : a military hospital usually located in a communications zone that gives treatment to all kinds of cases.

With more than 15,000 episodes and counting, "General Hospital" is the longest-running daytime drama in American TV history.

According to Peace, the show has run through all the scripts that were written before the strike began and has now employed non-union writers in order to keep the show on the air.

Soap operas. You know them, the serial dramas on daytime TV. And as their name suggests, they've got a heck of a lot in common with the musical melodramas patented 300 years earlier.

SOAPS stands for the following: S – subject/general topic/ideas the writer is describing O – occasion for the writing (think “exigence” – includes time and place) A – specific audience the writing is directed toward P – purpose/reason for the writing S - speaker's characteristics/attitudes/views/persona, etc…

1. a. : a serial drama performed originally on a daytime radio or television program and chiefly characterized by tangled interpersonal situations and melodramatic or sentimental treatment. b.